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I wanted to commit changes I made in my .bashrc without logging out. Easiest was to source it. source ~/.bashrc Now I no longer need to log out and then log in a new terminal to see the changes take effect.

Whenever I tried to start Mathematica 7 from command line, I get the following error and it exits, xset: bad font path element (#23), possible causes are: Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions Directory missing fonts.dir Incorrect font server address or syntax The reason is that my terminal had wrong xset settings. To reset it I just had to press F9 in the terminal and like magic Mathematica started without any more error.

I wanted to search for some lyrics on a site. Evry time I had to type the same keyword site:www.ssdad.com along with the search terms. So I went ahead and modified a search engine already installed to get around this hassle. What I did to create my own custom search engine in Firefox is as follows - I went to the directory home/.mozilla/firefox/asrfafae.default/searchplugins Copy pasted any search plugin already installed. Opened the xml file in a text editor. I modified it to my advantage (the bold ones) - musicindiaonline.com hindi Lyrics Search - MusicIndiaOnline.com ISO-8859-1 data:image/x-icon;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAQCAMAAAAoLQ9TAAAABGdBTUEAALGPC/xhBQAAAwBQTFRFAP8A////PZk9/4xpAAAA//8AzYU/AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA...